Apparatus for making flat talking-machine records.



PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

W. II. HOYT. APPARATUS IoR MAKING FLAT TALKING MACHINE RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.6, 1906.

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APPARATUS Fon MAKING. FLAT TALKiNG-wlAoHiNE RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratentea Maron 19, 1907.

Application filed February 6, 1906. Serial No. 299,698.

To all roi/.om it may concern:

Be it known that i, WILLIAM HELM HoY'i, a citizen of the l ni ted States, and a resident of l/Vyoming, in the county of Essex and State of ew J ersey, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Making Flat Talking-Machine Records, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of flat records or disk records for talkingmachines, and has for its object to provide means for making a plurality of such records at one operation.

'lhe invention will be fully described hereinafter and the features of novelty pointed j out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an apparatus f suitable for the purposes of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof on line 2 2 of Fig.v l.

carrying out my invention.

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the lapparatus'or mold comprises a bottom plate a and a top plate 1),'wliich are adapted to be pressed toward each other by any suitable mechanism, such as a hydraulic press. Suitl able means are provided for guiding the plates in their relative movement and for g properly centering the record. Such means may consist of a center pin c, secured to the bottom platey c and projecting into an opening b of the top plate b, and of dowels or guide-pins d likewise secured to the bottom plate a. and sliding through suitable openings of the top plate b,'said guide-pins being matrices niaybc alike, so as to producethe l same record, or they may belong to different records. The apparatus shown in Figs. l

and 2 further comprises a central plate or backingf, preferably made of metal.

flnoperation after the matrix c has been 1 placed in the recess of the bottom plate (l a disk q of celluloirl, ibcrloid, pyroxylin, hard rubber, or any other hard gramophone inaterial, (preferably, hou/even rellnloid,) is placed on the upwardlyacing molding-surace of the matrix. Then the foundation 71 Y Figs. .E and 4 are partial sectional elevations showing two other ways of The ,i

l by one operation.

g is placed on the Celluloid disk g, said foun l (lation consisting of cardboard or any fibrous l or other suitable materlal which need not be l plastic. Then follows another disk g of celluloid -or other gramophone material. Then the metal plate or backing f is placed over the centering-pin c and a celluloid disk g2 and cardboard foundation h and a celluloid disk g3 are placed on top in substantially the same manner as described for the lower record. Then comes the second or upper matrix e with its molding-face downward, l and inally the top plate b. It will of course be understood that all the parts which are slid on the centering-pin c are provided with proper openings for this purpose. The mold having thus been assembled together with the parts of the record is placed in a l hydraulic press and there subjected to the I requisite amount of ressure. At the same :time heat is applic( -as, for instance, by l means of steam-so as to soften the celluloid l or other plastic material, which thus takes the impression from the molding-surfaces of the matrices. At the same time the marl ginal portion of the cellu'loid layers or disks will generally melt or be softened sufficiently to form a connection around the edge of the foundations z or h', as shown in F ig. 1, so that the foundation will be entirely envellastic sul oped by the celluloid or other heat have stance. After the pressure an i been continued a sufficient length of time the press and mold are cooled in any suitable way, as by means of cold water. Then the pressure is released and the iinished records are removed from the mold.

While I have described the making of only tworecords at a time, I desire it to be understood-that'my invention is ap licable to the l making of 'a much larger num er of records Thus in Fig. 3 I have l shown the simultaneous making of three ,'records.' vThe apparatus diders from' that shown in Fig. 2 only by the use of an addi- 1 tional matrix e2 between the top matrix e Q and the backing-plate f. This matrix c2 is substantially the `same asthe top matrix e', l but has its periphery perpendicular instead of slanting. It will be seen without further l detailed description how three records are produced by one operation in this instance. In some cases a matrix may have moldingl surfaces on both sides, .as shown in Fig. 4,

for the matrix e?. tom platea and topv plate b in this case re- IOC:

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The recesses of the botceive backing-plates f f2, respectively, 111-,E

stead of the'matriees e e The o eration is substantially the same'- asy herein efore described.

I have ascertained that up to ten recordsv may be made readily ai one operation by the use of my invention.

.If desired, a double record having a recordgroove on each surface maybe produced by placing the record-blank between two matrices the molding-surfaces of which are toward each other. Y The-process herein described is claimedi'n ya divisional application vfiled bv me August 15', 1906, Serial No. 330,648. I claim as my invention- 1. An apparatus [or making -iiat tallliiingireeords, eo'rnlprisingo posing end plates movable relative y to eac other, an intermediate plate-located between said end plates and ada ted to bespacedQt-herefroin to accomino ate the' record material,` one of the faces.

which engage the record material being a molding-surface while the other surfacewhich engages the same record material acts as .a

' backing.

3 apparatus for lmaking flat soundrecords, comprising two ,end platesmovable relatively to each other, matrices engaging said end plates and-having molding-grooves on Vtheir opposing surfaces, and an intermediate late locatedA between .said matrices and arapted'to form a backing for the record materia.-

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4. An apparatusfor making ii'at soundrecords, comprising-two end"plates, a centerpin secured to one oi' said end plates, matrices' fitted on said center-pin and engagingthere- 'spective end, plates, "saidI I natrices. having molding-grooves on their op oslng surfaces,`

and anri'ntermediate plate l1 Wisegittedy on said` center-pin and adapted'to forml abacking for the reeord material. A

, Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my' handin the presence oi' two subscribing Witnesses. v

WILLIAM HELM HOYT'.

Witnesses: y v I' ELEAN'OR. J ADAMS, EDWIN F. HALL. 

